Roswell Library Week Celebrates Librarians and Programs
Roswell Public Library marks National Library Week with events and contests led by librarians and staff. Highlights include Eva McCollum concert, Story Time sessions, Library Snapshot Day, and Patron Appreciation activities. The feature lists resources like books, e books, magazines, DVDs and online databases plus Roswell landmarks and fiction titles tied to baseball history and local authors.
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National Library Workers
National Library Week
Willard Scott
Nbc-Tv
Roswell Public
Roswell Public Library
Eva McCollaum
Roswell Daily Record
Tomas Gonzalez
Roswell
Dewey Johnson
Lions Honda
Joe Don Miller
Joe Don
Roy Hobbs
Bernard Malamud
Hobbs
Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Your Library
Letter from Birmingham Jail cited in civil rights history
Today in history notes MLK Jr wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963 defending nonviolent protests. It lists other events and birthdays tied to April 16, including Washington’s inauguration, Lincoln’s 1862 bill, and notable births and deaths.
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Mlk Jr
Birmingham
Martin Luther King Jr
King
George Washington
Mount Vernon
New York
Abraham Lincoln
District of Columbia
Confederacy
Bernadette Soubirous
Lourdes
Nevers
Neh- Vehr
France
Harriet Quimby
English Channel
Dover
England
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Russia
Penasco Valley Telecommunications
Rural Utilities Service
Department of Agriculture
United States
New Mexico Senate stalls gun background checks bill HB 77
Gov. Susana Martinez may sign Rep. Miguel Garcia's background checks bill HB 77 if it reaches her desk. The measure faced a late Senate vote as time ran out before adjournment, with the NRA boasting of long debate and late amendments.
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Susana Martinez
Quinnipiac University
Washington Post
Greg Sargent
New Mexico
Mother Jones
State Senate
Rep
Miguel Garcia
National Rifle Association
Senate
John Sanchez
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Library
Joe Bauman
Roswell Rockets
Pennsylvania
Chad Harbach
Fielding
Henry Skrimshander
Westish College
Skrimshander
Boo
Friends of the Library
NBC
Blue Network
U.S
Nuremberg
Germany
Texas City
Texas
Bernard M. Baruch
South Carolina
Bob Dylan
Gerde
Folk City
Walter Cronkite
Douglas Edwards
CBS TV
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Ken Mattingly
Britain
Prince Andrew
Sarah
Duchess of York
Seung-Hui Cho
Sung-Wee Joh
Virginia Tech
Bush
Iraq
St. Louis
George W. Bush
Michael Jordan
Washington Wizards
Philadelphia 76Ers
Supreme Court
Benedict XVI
White House
Edward Lorenz
Cambridge
Mass
Oslo
Norway
Anders Breivik
Ahn’-Durs Bray’-Vikk
Breivik
The
Associated Press
Peter Mark Richman
Bobby Vinton
Denmark
Margrethe II
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ann Romney
Bill Belichick
Peter Garrett
Ellen Barkin
Jason Scheff
Jimmy Osmond
David Pirner
Soul Asylum
Martin Lawrence
Jon Cryer
Dan Rieser
Peter Billingsley
Lukas Haas
Henry Miller
Mason Temple
Memphis
Tenn
Rhodes
NRA
New Mexico News Services
Penasco
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, DC
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